Bring Collections to life with Art Zimbabwe
Art Zimbabwe by Richard Parry is an expanded approach to mail art and contemporary art processes having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular 'native information'. It is the study of a particular landscape without taking into account any outside influence.
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Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet, 2014
"Richard Parry sits down in the Astrup Fearnley Museum with Ida Sannes Hansen to discuss the Art Zimbabwe collaboration, his influences, and the history of this work. Highlighting Richard's counter-actualising approach to institutional art-worlds, which involves opening up literal and metaphorical spaces where the viewer can establish a relationship with their desires, this online event features artworks from particular moments in his project, alongside a range of cultural influences that have shaped his practice over time."
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London: DACS interview, 2013
"Richard Parry sits down in his living room with David Bickerstaff and Mark Waugh to discuss the Art Zimbabwe initiative, art collections and technology. Highlighting the the role of the internet in Richard's art making, which concerns 'forms of interruption' that keep the opportunities for 'becoming public', this online event features a row of literary influences that have informed his thinking."
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Harare: National Gallery, 2011
"Recorded footage of the Richard Parry Art Zimbabwe exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. The idea was to bring a fiction to life ahead of time that reality would sooner or later imitate - an autocritical avant-garde within the art-world's fictioning machinary."
Highlights
One chief insight might be that we’re not ‘directly’ deceived or mystified by the art - world but the contrary: we think of it as an ‘ordinary’ thing. Our belief in the art-world is objectified.
“Artists are placed in a dynamic where cultural "authenticity" becomes something very tangible and necessary to achieve economic success, or quite simply exist.”
Richard Parry, artist
